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  • The Week in Regulation: January 23-27
    Jan 27, 2012 |
    Regulation
    President Obama reiterated his call to reform regulations in Tuesday’s State of the Union address, but the gap between his rhetoric and his administration’s actions continues to widen. This week saw more than $3.3 billion in costs and 2 million paperwork burden hours added to the regulatory books.
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  • Docs Look For Unnecessary Procedures
    Jan 26, 2012 |
    HealthCare
    It is no secret that medical treatment in the US is expensive and costs are only going up. According to experts nearly one-third of the services are wasteful, providing no patient benefit, and in some cases likely proving harmful. While this is discouraging news, the silver lining is that it is therefore possible to dramatically reduce healthcare spending without any harm to quality and access to care.
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  • Look Who Else Released Their Earnings Reports: Your Insurance Companies
    Jan 26, 2012 |
    HealthCare
    The general public often has a difficult time understanding earnings of large corporations, especially when those corporations are in the medical field. Our natural inclination between the current economic crisis and the undeniably high health care costs is that insurance companies shouldn’t be making huge profits. And, in many cases they are not. But, that is not what it always looks like on paper.
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  • EU Breast Implant Recall Causes US Overreaction
    Jan 26, 2012 |
    HealthCare
    For patients, there are few things worse than to be told that the treatment they used actually caused more harm than good. Unfortunately for thousands of women in France and Germany, this was the news they received when it was discovered that their breast implants were potentially faulty.
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  • Regulatory Agenda: A Look Inside
    Jan 25, 2012 |
    Regulation
    The president’s Unified Agenda, a guidebook to near and long-term regulatory actions, finally hit the Internet.  The Agenda is a little late, as it’s officially the Fall 2011 regulatory plan.  The highlights: 138 “economically significant” active (impact of $100 million or more) regulations; 45 significant completed final rules; and, 29 significant long-term actions.  Here’s a snapshot of economically significant long-term agency actions:
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